Health and social care services have failed to keep pace with dramatic demographic changes and need to be radically remodelled, the King’s Fund said today
It is not yet possible to say whether the government’s Help to Buy equity loans, designed to improve access to mortgage finance, will provide taxpayers with value for money, the National Audit Office...
Public service outsourcing firms today said they were willing to start using open-book accounting and allow their contracts to be scrutinised by the National Audit Office
The cost of local government pension administration could be cut in half through greater use of shared services and fund mergers, a government-backed pension firm has said.
Senior doctors should be offered incentive payments to work in understaffed accident and emergency departments, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
The six most senior finance leaders in the NHS are backing a campaign to consolidate and develop financial management across the health service after the government’s restructure
Doubts about the ability of local enterprise partnerships to take on responsibility for administering public funds have prompted the Treasury to ask the Local Partnerships agency to help develop the...
Councils are cutting the support they provide to keep bus services running due to the growing cost of the concessionary fares scheme for elderly people, the Local Government Association has warned.
The coalition’s programme to cut the cost of operational Private Finance Initiative schemes should eventually save more than double its initial £1.5bn target, the chief executive of the Local...
A strike ballot of council workers over the decision by the Local Government Association to delay an annual pay offer until May now looks ‘inevitable’, trade unions warned today.
The government is set to miss its savings target from the new disability benefits because of a massive backlog in the assessment process, auditors said today
Public sector pensions are uncertain, unfunded and unsustainable and should be replaced with an individual contributory pension on a defined contribution basis, according to proposals from a Scottish...
Management costs in local authorities, including some finance functions, have increased by 10% in the last decade, with poor monitoring now hindering attempts to cut spending, the Audit Commission...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust will be dissolved, with its two constituent hospitals to be operated by other providers
The body established by government to improve public health in England has not yet shown it can be effective and needs to do more to establish its independence from the Department of Health, MPs have...
A future Labour government would support the restructuring of local authorities into unitaries in a drive to ‘declutter’ the public sector, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie has said
Ongoing reforms to financial management in government are intended to improve management accounting and place finance professionals at the heart of Whitehall decision-making, senior figures have said.
Monitor has been a rigorous and effective regulator for the health service but may struggle to maintain this with more foundation trusts at financial risk, the National Audit Office said today.
